Asking and answering the uncomfortable question, does it matter who is writing our entertainment? This panel of celebrated all-female industry professionals discuss the trials and tribulations of getting more women in the writer's room.

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An illustrious panel of female industry professionals discuss how to get more women into the TV industry.

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The simplest way to get a drama commission as a female writer, might be to never meet a television executive and use a male pseudonym – JK Rowling, George Eliot or Harper Lee might be useful beards. Because currently only 14% of prime-time TV is female-written. (Gender Inequality and Screenwriters report)

And yet television is always looking for the new voice, the different form, how to tell a story that we haven’t heard before and in a new way. If women are commissioned a fraction as much as men, then it stands to reason that they have a rich fund of stories saved up, just ready and waiting to be told. But how to get past security?

A panel, hosted by Lisa Holdsworth, recently appointed chair of the Writers Guild, will tell you where they think the opportunities lie and where they need to be unblocked. They will share how they did it and how you can do it too.

With thanks to session prodcuer: Philippa Collie Cousins, drama commissioner, UKTV

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